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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KINGSCROSS POINT Kingscross Point
Kingscross Point
Kingscross Point
Kingscross Point
Kingscross Point
Estate Map
Factor
Bryce's Geology
Admiralty Chart
County Map
255.02 A point of land on a farm of the same name being the South eastern extremity of Lamlash Bay.
Tradition assigns this as the place where King Robert the Bruce took his departure from Arran to the shore of Carrick,
STONE [Kingscross Point Stone Estate Map
Factor
Bryce's Geology
Admiralty Chart
County Map
255.02 a large square stone between six & seven feet high. as commemorative of the event stands near the point, but by whom or when erected tradition is silent. It does not seem to have much antiquity about it
FORT [Kingscross Point] Fort
Fort
Fort
McArthurs Antiquities
Archibald Shaw Kingscross
Neil Kennedy Kingscross
255.02 McArthurs Antiquities calls this a "small fort" or "fortlet" The base of the wall can apparently be traced round it, but being situated on a rocky Knowe the wall may be refered to natural causes, the old people call it the Bruces fort, simply because the King is believed to have resided here for a short time.

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Parish of Kilbride
"Stone" -written in G [German] Text
"Fort" in OE [Old English]
JB Lt. RE [possibly John Bayly Lt Lieutenant Colonel] Royal Engineers]

"Kingscross is supposed to be the place at which King Robert Bruce, accompanied by Maclouis or Fullarton embarked for Carrick" Origines Parochiales & New Stat [ Statistical] Account.

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